Miniature bride or little girl religious: first communion clothing in post-war Spanish culture and society
Harvey, Jessamy (2012) Miniature bride or little girl religious: first communion clothing in post-war Spanish culture and society. Girlhood Studies 5 (2), pp. 84-102. ISSN 1938-8209.
Abstract
The tradition of religious clothing for children is relatively unexplored: this article develops the premise that debates about the links between the sacred and the market go deeper than concern about consumption, and bring to the surface issues of identity. Through exploring the historical development of the First Communion, not as religious ritual but as Catholic consumer culture, the article turns to analyse girls' communicant dress in Spain between the 1940s and 1960s which were the early decades of a dictatorial Regime (1939 to 1975) marked by an ideology of National-Catholicism. General Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, leader of the military rebellion against the elected government in 1936, ruled Spain until his death. One of my aims is to correct a tendency to make the little girl dressed in bridal wear the most visible sign because to do so disregards the cultural practice of wearing clothing to perform piety, signal a vocation or express gratitude for religious intercession.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | bridal culture, Catholicism, commercialism, dictatorship, dress, first communion, girlhood, Spain |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Jessamy Harvey |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2013 09:32 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:32 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6175 |
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